One of the early members and later leader Mark Lambie was a suspect in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during that riot.
[12] Lambie had been top of Operation Trident's wanted list due to the close links he had built with gangs in Wembley, Harlesden and south London.
[29] In 1996, police believed Mark and an associate, Clifford Angol, may have been involved in the non-fatal shooting of Kenneth Wowe in West London.
In the same year, police believed he and an associate, Michael Thomas (aka Mallet), had shot at an EQ nightclub in Hackney Marsh.
[32][33] The origins of the feud aren't clear;[15] in the book Guns and Gangs: The Inside Story of the War on our Streets by Graeme McLagen, it is claimed the conflict began when 16-year-old Guydance Dacres was shot dead in 1997 at a Chimes nightclub in Hackney.
Anthony Bourne, member of TMD allies Edmonton Firm,[14] and Fabiann Fatinikun were both acquitted of the murder.
[29][34][35][15] James Sutherland however, a former police officer, has stated the death of Guydance was not the cause of the conflict behind TMD and the Hackney Boys and the killings that followed.
Clint escaped, but Kingsley was cornered on a block of flats, beaten, kicked, punched and ultimately shot and killed.
[14] Two of the individuals involved in the murder of Kingsley Iyasara, Meneliek Robinson and Corey Wright, were themselves shot dead soon after they were released from prison in 1999 and 2001 respectively.
[29][12][26][15] He was top of Operation Trident's wanted list due to the close links he had built with gangs in Wembley, Harlesden in Brent, and south London.
[49][50] Police were also struggling because they did not actually know where Mark Lambie was or where he lived, which made traditional methods of gathering information on someone somewhat difficult.
Police also found that Mark was living in South London, rather than North as was expected, and that he was using false names, such as 'Paul Gordan'.
Eventually, they managed to find him and his brother, Wesley Lambie, in a car that was suspected to be stolen (although the owner refused to testify it was).
[29] What they didn't know was that an associate of Mark, Anthony Bourne, had lured two men into Broadwater Estate, where they were kidnapped at gunpoint by at least 14 people.
The gang fled, and Mr Morris ran towards a police car he had spotted passing by and lunged onto the bonnet asking for help.
[51][12][13][52][29] Two other members of the gang that were involved in the incident, Warren Leader and Francis Osei, were also convicted of kidnapping and blackmail.
[15][11][48] Clint Ponton and Wesley Lambie formed the NorthStar music record label, promotion, and production company.
[48][60] In 2008, Clint was stabbed in the neck at the Urban Music Awards in what was suspected by police to be a part of a Tottenham gang conflict.
Killings also dropped during this period, but the rivalries continued through music with rival groups sending disses towards each other (such as Mash Town from London Fields).
[11][14] Some of the Tottenham split-offs from TMD were Ida Boys, NPK (Northumberland Park Killers[16]), Chestnut Estate (CE, also known as Black Gang),[17] and Tiverton Mandem.
[20] The name 'Star Gang' was allegedly influenced by "North Star", the music group set up by former TMD members during the early 2000s.
He would plead guilty to violent disorder, attempted wounding with intent and possession of a sharp-pointed article in a public place, and was sentenced to 6 years in prison, in addition to a 4-year license.
[80][81] In August the same year, Steven Grisales, an architecture student from Argentina, was stabbed to death by Ochaine Williams, a NPK member.
[90] Some weeks later, on 8 March, Kelvin Odunuyi - also known as Lampz[75] or DipDat[91]- was shot to death outside the Vue cinema in Wood Green.
[94] Roughly one month following the death of Lampz, on 2 April, Tanesha Melbourne-Blake was shot and killed alongside Chalgrove Road in Tottenham.
[101] Rappers that go under the "Sin Squad (SS)" collective include Stewie, Bully B, GP, Uncs, KayyKayy, Tugga, MLoose, and LR.
[102][103] Tyrell "Trills" Graham and Shane "Sneakz" Lyons are also members of Sin Squad, however they are currently incarcerated for the murder of Gabbidon-Lynck.
[23][24][25] In 2020, SJ, alongside four others (Sheareem Cookhorn, Tyrell "Trills" Graham, Shane "Sneakz" Lyons, and Ojay "O'Sav" Hamilton),[104][100] was given a life sentence with a minimum of 21 years, following a court case at the Old Bailey for the murder of Kamali "K1" Gabbidon-Lynck[98] in Wood Green.
[citation needed] In 2011, the TMD ranked second on the Met's Organised Crime Network matrix, making them the second most harmful gang in the capital.
The circumstances of Duggan's killing resulted in public protests in Tottenham that were widely seen as the proximate cause of the 2011 England riots.